The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2023 Curci Ph.D. Scholars. The Curci Foundation worked with the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington, each of which selected incoming Ph.D. students in Life Sciences to receive funding to assist with tuition and living expenses.

University of California Berkeley

Simran Bawa

Department: Integrative Biology
Home country: United States

Eway Cai

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China

Xiuyuan Cheng

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China

Jason Hu

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Canada

Dorra Jedoui

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Tunisia

Juliana Lee
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Canada

University of California San Diego

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Wanning Cui

Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China

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Deborah Kutner

Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Brazil

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Shuozhi Liu

Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China

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Weronika Matysik

Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Poland

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SungWoo Park

Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: South Korea

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Abhinaya Pathak

Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
Home country: Nepal

University of California San Francisco

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Brenda Ametepe

Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: Togo, West Africa

Haoyu Fan

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Home country: China

Tayma Handal

Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Home country: Palestine

Nikhita Kirthivasan

Department: Biomedical Sciences
Home country: India

Chloe Kong

Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: South Korea

Chang Liu

Department: Tetrad
Home country: China/United States

University of Colorado Boulder

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Oscar Cordova

Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico

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Sofi Leon Gonzalez

Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico

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Norah Nyangau

Department: Integrative Physiology
Home country: Kenya

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Coralie Phanord

Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Home country: Haiti

Negar Rahimi

Department: Physiology
Home country: Iran

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Sen Wang

Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: China

University of Utah

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Tara Buzinski

Department: Biological Chemistry
Home country: United States

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Nicole Lacey

Department: Mathematics
Home country: United States

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Hannah Meier

Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Home country: Germany

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Laurence Saint Pierre

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: France

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Brooklyn Vargas

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: United States

Chuang Zhang

Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
Home country: China

University of Washington

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Richmond Kwane Boateng

Department: Biochemistry
Home country: Ghana

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Sophia Chioma Chima

Department: Global Health
Home county: Nigeria

Yufei Gao

Department: Bioengineering
Home county: China

Zeidy Garcia

Department: Microbiology
Home country: Mexico

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Olivia Waltner

Department: Genome Sciences
Home country: United States

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Ruowei Zhu

Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Home county: China